Hermes-3: Multi-component plasma simulations with BOUT++

B Dudson, M Kryjak, H Muhammed, P Hill… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
A new open source tool for fluid simulation of multi-component plasmas is presented, based
on a flexible software design that is applicable to scientific simulations in a wide range of …

Six-field two-fluid simulations of peeling–ballooning modes using BOUT++

TY Xia, XQ Xu, PW Xi - Nuclear Fusion, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The simulations on edge-localized modes (ELMs) with six-field peeling–ballooning (P–B)
modes using the BOUT++ code are reported in this paper. This six-field model based on the …

Gyrokinetic continuum simulation of turbulence in a straight open-field-line plasma

EL Shi, GW Hammett, T Stoltzfus-Dueck… - Journal of Plasma …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Five-dimensional gyrokinetic continuum simulations of electrostatic plasma turbulence in a
straight, open-field-line geometry have been performed using a full-discontinuous-Galerkin …

BOUT++: Recent and current developments

BD Dudson, A Allen, G Breyiannis, E Brugger… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
BOUT++ is a 3D nonlinear finite-difference plasma simulation code, capable of solving quite
general systems of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), but targeted particularly on studies …

Nonlinear fluid simulation of particle and heat fluxes during burst of ELMs on DIII-D with BOUT++ code

TY Xia, XQ Xu - Nuclear Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to study the distribution and evolution of the transient particle and heat fluxes during
edge-localized mode (ELM) bursts, a BOUT++ six-field two-fluid model based on the …

Recent advances in long-pulse high-confinement plasma operations in Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak

HY Guo, J Li, BN Wan, XZ Gong, YF Liang, GS Xu… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A long-pulse high confinement plasma regime known as H-mode is achieved in the
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) with a record duration over 30 s …

[HTML][HTML] Global 3D two-fluid simulations of the tokamak edge region: Turbulence, transport, profile evolution, and spontaneous E× B rotation

B Zhu, M Francisquez, BN Rogers - Physics of Plasmas, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present global two-fluid simulations of L-mode edge tokamak plasma turbulence and
profile evolution including both closed field lines and the scrape-off-layer. We consider a …

Inter-ELM pedestal localized fluctuations in tokamaks: Summary of multi-machine observations

FM Laggner, A Diallo, M Cavedon… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A variety of experimental studies on pedestal localized fluctuations appearing in between
crashes of edge localized modes (ELMs) across several tokamaks have been reviewed and …

Modelling of edge localised modes and edge localised mode control

GTA Huijsmans, CS Chang, N Ferraro… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Edge Localised Modes (ELMs) in ITER Q= 10 H-mode plasmas are likely to lead to large
transient heat loads to the divertor. To avoid an ELM induced reduction of the divertor …

Divertor heat flux simulations in ELMy H-mode discharges of EAST

TY Xia, XQ Xu, YB Wu, YQ Huang, L Wang… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents heat flux simulations for the ELMy H-mode on the Experimental
Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) using a six-field two-fluid model in BOUT++ …